I have a tube amp.  It's an old Stromburg 8 tube that has been rebuilt into a sort of mixing console to warm up recording or performance music.  My friend Robert gave it to me.  While it's plenty powerful to drive anything modern, it gets in a hurry when over driven and starts imparting a little too much warmth if you know what I mean.  However when the volume is just right, the thing really shines with the right speakers.  The right speakers are these Golden Idol Tao speakers and they really work synergistically with tube systems.  I built them myself!  The sound is amazing.

One thing that tube amps impart is a certain fuzzyness around the edges, a kind of little bump right at the beginning of a sound, just like if the sound waves were really coming from a person's mouth, hitting your ears fresh for the first time instead of being recorded, played back, and amplified, sent through a speaker and then to your ears.  For some reason, it's an effect that bur-brown, transistors, op-amps-chips, whatever, just can't seem to get right.  However without the right speakers, you may as well have a two dollar radio.

The Golden Idol Tao speakers use Fostex 4 inch full range drivers.  The benefit is that the small driver is super efficient.  It can be driven with just 15 watts of power and still get a huge dynamic range.  To wring the most out of this little beauty, I researched all over and found the absolute best cabinet for it.  Then I put my small touch...an incredibly hard 4 layers of varnish.  The piano black finish with all the varnish makes for an incredibly tight structure.  The 13 layer Baltic birch plywood already has rigidity and homogeneity of structure, with the hand painted and sanded varnish, the speaker box components become one thing!  No screws, only glue is used to hold the box together.  Screws could set up interference waves in the box.  I wanted a stiff and homogeneous structure, with as few parts as possible.

The double horn design with cascading steps is another feature.  The benifit is that the small speakers can couple with a large volume of air so every bit of energy is transformed into sound.  The cascading steps trap high frequencies and allow the lower frequencies to propagate out of the mouths, backing up the brightness of the small speaker with a realistic portrayal of bass.  What you end up with is an effortless, easy, and airy sound reproduction without holes or cracks, unnessessary brightness, or harshness.  The depth of sound is amazing for such a small driver.  Coupled with my cabinet, the drivers just keep on giving, way way down!  It's like the perfomers are right there.  The two horns spread so far away from the driver give a huge wall of music.  The sound stage illusion is almost creepy in its realness.  It's what I listen to music for.

I can make these speakers for you.  They cost $3k a pair.  I know that's a lot but they will last you for the rest of your life.  I hand make everything and hand paint on the finish, inside and out.  They take about three weeks to make so get your order in now!


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